Emancipation Proclamation 2005

By the President of the United States of America:

A Proclamation.

Whereas, on the first day of July, in the year of our Lord two thousand and five, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:

That on the first day of July, in the year of our Lord two thousand and five, all persons held as slaves within any Booz Allen War Room or designated proposal room, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free

All of this to say! I'M DONE! The proposal is done. I'm done and I have a three-day weekend to celebrate it. Today, we finished up the proposal and it ready to go to orals on Tuesday. This week did not go off without a hitch... I got a wickedly violent stomach virus from the kids I baby-sat for this week. I started to feel ill about midnight on Wednesday and while I'm on the floor of my bathroom with green grossness spewing out of every orifice, all I could think of was my proposal! I was so delirious that I called my task lead at 4:00 a.m. and told her that I wasn't coming in and not to fire me? She said all she could so was laugh because she knew I wasn't in my right mind!... I think her initial impression was that I was under the spell of Brother Booze.

Anyway, my parents and brother came for the night -- they were passing through on the way to my stepfather's family reunion in New Jersey. Sometimes, I marvel at the dichotomy between my biological dad's family and my step dad's family. Case in point, if the Webb's were to have a family reunion, please believe we'd click my grandmother's and aunt's trailer together (with the drinking, cards, and weed in my aunt's trailer); have about 3-4 grills going in the front yard and enough kids to have a baseball game with enough participants for the infield, outfield, pitcher, batters, first-base coach, etc... and the Slaten's are having their family reunion at the Scotch Plains Country Club.

This weekend is going to be oh so mellow. I'm still feeling a little groggy from the dehydration and most of my friends, well all of my friends, are out of town this weekend. The Beane Family is going pioneering to Belize for the Baha'i Faith and I'm going to help them with their yard sale and watch their two beautiful little ones while they prepare to move out of the country! I've not known Heitha long, but in the time I've known her she has been a gem and an inspiration to me. Her selfless devotion to Baha'i Faith and its Cause is nothing short of amazing. Her family has a beauty and a love that radiates from them!

I hope one day that I will courageous and obedient enough to pioneer. Until then, I'll baby-sit everyone kids while they prepare to go! :-)